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Jiang is such a crank and its so embarrassing that leftists watch it.

John Kiriakou has an interview of him bragging about molesting a paraplegic mechanic.

The CIA has a meme department so that's that.

"Professor" Jiang (he's not an actual professor) has fed connections if not a fed himself. There's a Twitter thread about Jiang's background: https://nitter.net/zhen_ming_/status/2035083436860612639

He immigrated to Canada when he was 6 and he only learned how to speak Mandarin at college. He spoke Taishanese at home, meaning he most likely didn't know how to read Chinese characters until college either. Basically, he's a lot more removed from mainstream Chinese society than what he lets on. I don't think he even lives in China. People are just listening to an anticommunist Chinese Canadian with a vague foreign accent and thinks that he must represent Chinese Mainlanders somehow.

Oh and he also thinks that "Israel's success is due to it becoming a world laboratory, creating goods and technologies exported to the rest of the world."

Kiria means penis in Persian

Okay, I need to check if I'm the only one who was this aware of Kiriakou and his ties.

My first introduction to him was through Sputnik News podcasts when he was the co-host with Brian Becker. The show was pretty good and I do appreciate the fact that Kiriakou testified against CIA torture programs and Jina Haspel's involvement, but CIA members are to never be trusted.

Anyway, good analysis on the show, Richard Wolff was a frequent guest. But Sputnik News had some Russian ties and funding iirc. They split off and Kiriakou left, now Brian Becker is the host of the independent The Socialist Program podcast.

Now a few things about Becker: he's the national coordinator of ANSWER coalition and has a long personal history of good political agitation. And he's one of the founding members of PSL.

But the thing that's always made me a little uneasy is the proximity to Kiriakou and being very high up in the PSL. Same goes for Wolff's close association with the show as well as Michael Prysner. They haven't publicly worked with Kiriakou in years so far as I can recall, and I assume at some point if you're a prominent left figure then you're probably going to rub elbows with CIA whether you seek it out or not. But this connection has always made me feel a little warry of PSL, though I know they're probably the best party out there.

Just want to see what y'all's takes on this are.

I heard on Chapo yesterday that because Tucker is apparently the most prominent voice out there against the war, I have to be supportive of him guess I’ll just die then

this is my first time hearing about 2/3 of these so idk how effective this particular push is

I think it is because they don't have the people in charge they used to, they aren't nearly as competent as their forebears and they're panicking, so they're just throwing whatever they can out there in the hopes that some of it sticks and relying on the lack of media literacy built up by generations of a neoliberal education system to be successful. They don't have a plan to combat growing class consciousness beyond just throwing more money at talking heads and hoping it works.

is Kiriakou a psyop since the videos of him may convince people that the CIA has time dilation technology? During many interviews he demonstrates the ability to speed up and slow down at will

The Kiriakou vids make the CIA look terrible though?

Another one I keep seeing is Scott Ritter